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Part of an early blast furnace (Araglin, Ireland)

& just digging

Open cast iron ore mining, Romano-British

Activity frequency mapping (iron works)

comparing excavated sites

 

 

more comparative studies

 

 

Highly vesicular bloomery slag

Crafts

experimental reconstruction

 

 

 

recording artefacts in situ

 

Contents of one box in the National Slag Collection

Conferences

artefactual evidence

 

 

Outcrop of sideritic ore overhanging sandstone

Etched sample of unworked bloomery iron (photomicrograph)

experimental archaeology